The Revelers, the Glossary
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.[1]
Table of Contents
40 relations: Arthur Tracy, Asleep in the Deep (song), Baby Face (song), Bing Crosby, Blue Room (1926 song), Boardwalk Empire, Brunswick Records, CBS, Charles W. Harrison, Close and open harmony, Columbia Records, Comedian Harmonists, Decca Records, Dinah (song), Fanny Brice, Frank Luther, Franklyn Baur, I've Been Working on the Railroad, James Melton, Lewis James, Metropolitan Opera, NBC, NJ.com, Ol' Man River, Paul Whiteman, RCA Records, Richard Tauber, Ring Lardner, Russ Columbo, Short film, Sound-on-disc, The Birth of the Blues, The New Yorker, The Palmolive Hour, The Revelers (Louisiana), The Revels, Valencia (song), Vitaphone, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, Warner Bros..
Arthur Tracy
Arthur Tracy (born Abba Avrom Tracovutsky; June 25, 1899 – October 5, 1997) was an American vocalist and actor, billed as The Street Singer. The Revelers and Arthur Tracy are American vaudeville performers.
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Asleep in the Deep (song)
"Asleep in the Deep" is a song written by Arthur J. Lamb and composed by Henry W. Petrie in 1897.
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Baby Face (song)
"Baby Face" is a popular Tin Pan Alley jazz song.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman. The Revelers and Bing Crosby are American jazz singers and American vaudeville performers.
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Blue Room (1926 song)
"Blue Room" is a show tune from the 1926 Rodgers and Hart musical The Girl Friend, where it was introduced by Eva Puck and Sammy White.
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Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO.
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Brunswick Records
Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Charles W. Harrison
Charles William Harrison (September 11, 1878 – February 2, 1965) was an American tenor ballad singer.
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Close and open harmony
A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.
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The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Dinah (song)
"Dinah" is a popular song published in 1925 and introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway.
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Fanny Brice
Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. The Revelers and Fanny Brice are American vaudeville performers.
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Frank Luther
Frank Luther (born Francis Luther Crow, August 4, 1899 – November 16, 1980) was an American country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist.
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Franklyn Baur
Franklyn Baur (April 5, 1903 – February 24, 1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.
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I've Been Working on the Railroad
"I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song.
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James Melton
James Melton (January 2, 1904 – April 21, 1961), a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s, later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932–35.
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Lewis James
Lewis Lyman James (July 27, 1892 – February 19, 1959) was a vocalist and among the most active of recording artists in the United States from 1917 through much of the 1930s.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
NJ.com
NJ.com is a digital news content provider and website in New Jersey owned by Advance Publications.
Ol' Man River
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925.
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. The Revelers and Paul Whiteman are American vaudeville performers.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian lyric tenor and film actor.
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Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.
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Russ Columbo
Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist, and actor.
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Short film
A short film is a film with a low running time.
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Sound-on-disc
Sound-on-disc is a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or play back sound in sync with a motion picture.
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The Birth of the Blues
"The Birth of the Blues" is a popular 1926 song composed by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Palmolive Hour
The Palmolive Hour was an American radio concert-variety program, sponsored by Palmolive Soap and broadcast on NBC from December 1927, to July 29, 1931.
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The Revelers (Louisiana)
The Revelers are a Louisiana music group, composed of founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and the Pine Leaf Boys.
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The Revels
The Revels were an American rock band from California, associated with the 1960s surf music craze.
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Valencia (song)
"Valencia" is a pasodoble song composed by José Padilla for the 1924 zarzuela La bien amada and included in the 1926 silent film Valencia, with lyrics translated by Lucien Boyer, Jacques Charles, and Clifford Grey.
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Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.
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Vocal Group Hall of Fame
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame & Museum Company Inc. was an American-based hall of fame that honored vocal groups throughout the United States.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revelers
Also known as The Shannon Four, The Shannon Quartet.